Education Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce

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It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…

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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…

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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…

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We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with all the prejudices which we actually have when we enter upon the…

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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in…

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It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring…

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One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative…

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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure…

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... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

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Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness…

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Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian…

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Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible…

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Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however…

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If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust,…

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Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others…

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The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially…

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